I have no first-hand experience SRP/DPT. However, the following questions exist? Does it scale well to 10's, or perhaps hundreds of nodes? And, is there the possibility of one member hurting the entire ring? On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, michael.dillon@radianz.com wrote:
Given that your analysis could be used to make decisions about exchange point architecture, I wonder if you would consider adding RPR IEEE 802.17 into the mix? While I don't know of anyone using RPR in an exchange point, there certainly are products on the market and not just Cisco's SRP/DPT. Within Ebone we were using SRP/DPT rings quite successfully in our PoP architecture, i.e. it does work in the real world. I know that the marketing side of RPR is promoting it as a metro area solution, but it works just as well in a PoP. Given that you are comparing a PoP oriented technology (Ethernet) with a metro area technology (ATM), I think it makes sense to take a serious look at a technology that covers both.
--Michael Dillon
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